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title: “How much the bird reminds me of the musical box that belonged to ou… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “How much the bird reminds me of the musical box that belonged to our blessed Empress,” said an old knight. Who acts: much bird, musical box, old knight. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 22

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“How much the bird reminds me of the musical box that belonged to our blessed Empress,” said an old knight.

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**Who acts:** much bird, musical box, old knight · **What happens:** remind, belong, say · **To what, where:** old knight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much bird, musical box, old knight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:3:22
# text = “How much the bird reminds me of the musical box that belonged to our blessed Empress,” said an old knight.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reminds	remind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	blessed	blessed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Empress	empress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remind** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | the much bird |  | a old knight *= knight* |  |  | of the musical box | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of box=Topic |
| 2 | **belong** *in a quote* | past | the musical box |  |  |  |  | to our blessed Empress | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a old knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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